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Weather Vane (1963-02-01) Vol. 7 No. 9

Page 1

Weather Vane E M C Receives Recognition
For Its Development Budget
Volume VII Harrisonburg-, Virginia, February 1, 1963 Number 9
Lecturer Says Protestant Ethics
Complicate Control of Population
Last Friday evening, Dr. Richard
M. Fagley, author of The Population
Explosion and Christian Responsi­bility
lectured on the relationship of
responsible parenthood to the popu­lation
problem. Dr. Fagley explained
the reason for interest in this prob­lem,
different causes o f the problem
and methods that are being used to
combat it.
Our chief problem is that areas in
greatest need have the least amount
of resources available. The southern
hemisphere, an area in great need of
food, has only two per cent of the
world’s fisheries.
Storage and transportation of food
presents a l a r g e problem. Even
though some areas may have surplus
food, countries in need cannot receive
the e x c e s s because of inadequate
Senior Class Plans
Smorgasboard Social
Tomorrow evening at 6 p.m., the
senior class will meet at Belle Meade
restaurant for their class social.
The evening will feature a smor­gasboard
dinner. Food will be served
buffet style in whatever quantity the
guests desire.
Myron S. Augsburger, assistant
professor of theology, will speak to
the graduating class after the dinner.
Noah Martin will be master of cere­monies.
Sophomore Lucille Mumaw will
play piano numbers during the din­ner.
Speaking for the Senior Social
Committee, John Reed commented,
“ From all indications, this year’s
senior social should be more o f a
success than previous senior class
socials. Eighty-five people have sign­ed
up for the evening— a considerably
larger number than attended pre­viously.”
Other members of the Senior Social
Committee are Janice Hertzler and
David Bomberger.
transportation facilities.
Science Creates Problems
Modern s c i e n c e , in eliminating
world pestilences and diseases, cre­ates
the problem of overpopulation.
Four per cent of all mankind is liv­ing
today. The world’s population
placed in a continuous chain would
encircle the earth 125 times.
Migration to unsettled lands has
been suggested as a possible solution
to the problem. Countries which have
uninhabited areas have their own ex­panding
population, h o w e v e r , and
need the available land for their own
use.
As another solution, scientists pro­pose
mass transfer of people to other
planets. This possibility presents
some amusing complications.
Scientists Tap New Resources
Scientists also speculate on pos­sible
sources of food presently un­used.
Plankton and algae from the
ocean can help provide the needed
nourishment for humans.
Because science has helped elimin­ate
limiting factors of natural popu­lation
and because inhumane methods
such as deliberate warfare cannot
ethically be used, Dr. Fagley said
that scientists believe that only a
lowering of the birth rate will solve
the problem.
However, Protestantism today can­not
accept some proposed methods.
“ The Protestant consensus is strongly
against abortion as a means o f fam i­ly
limitation,” he said. Protestantism
would be equally opposed to steriliza­tion
as a population limiting factor.”
For generations Protestants upheld
the large family as an ideal. Today
this presents f o r m i d a b l e conse­quences.
“ The joys of parenthood
will find full expression in the Pro­testant
ethos which calls for adequate
family planning,” said Dr. Fagley.
He believes that the main contribution
of parenthood will come in a deepen­ed
understanding of marriage and
its purposes for the human family.
Representing ten North American
Mennonite conferences, 115 Menno-nite
ministers were on campus from
Jan. 21-25 in observance of Ministers’
Week and the week’s theme, “ The
Minister in Anxious Times.”
“ The purpose of the program,”
says Linden M. Wenger, “ was to give
the ministers an opportunity for fel­lowship
and study together— to hear
papers and discussions of interest to
the church in our time.”
The ten conferences were repre­sented
as follows: Allegheny, 6; Al-berta-
Saskatchewan, 1; Conservative
Mennonite, 5; Franconia, 7; Indiana-
Michigan, 1; Lancaster, 29; Ohio and
Eastern, 16; Ontario, 1; Virginia,
45; Washington-Franklin Co., 2; and
S A C Awards E M C
Permanent Standing
EMC has successfully passed the
three-year probationary membership
in the Southern Association of Col­leges,
reports Lester C. Shank, di­rector
of public relations.
All new association members pass
through the probationary period. The
SAC accredited EMC on Dec. 3, 1959.
SAC Executive Secretary Gordon
Sweet, wrote, “ We congratulate you
upon this change of status and upon
the progress being made at your ins­titution.”
Careful calculation and prepara­tion
of its projected financial plans
recently won EMC significant recog­nition
in higher education circles.
In the summer of 1961, the Coun­cil
of Mennonite Higher Education
with representatives of Goshen, Hes-ston,
and Eastern Mennonite Col­leges,
decided to look at the financial
needs of the future together.
They appealed to the Fund for the
Advancement o f Education, an or­ganization
established by the Ford
Foundation. This organization re­sponded
by providing a resource per­son
to conduct a seminar on financial
planning at Hesston College.
In addition to the above named
colleges, other colleges in the area
were also invited to participate in the
seminar.
Photo by Elmer Kennel
Mr. Nash processes registration data cards as Harold D. Lehman,
school registrar, and assistants look on
Registration for Second Semester
U p s College Enrollment by Seven
Second semester registration resulted in a net increase of
seven students. Human error and a bottleneck, however, decreased
the effectiveness of the new registration process.
New students enrolled number 27,
Special Week Attracts 115
For Discussions, Lectures
no conference listed, 3.
When asked what Ministers’ Week
meant to him, Newton Yoder of the
Mattawana Congregation, McVey-town,
Pa. replied, “ It’s quite chal­lenging
to me because I’m only a
young minister . . . I realize what
all’s expected of a pastor. It’s quite
encouraging though.”
“ I appreciated these instructors—
their deep sincerity to present to us
the high calling that we as ministers
have to present the Gospel to people,”
remarked Alvin Miller, minister of
the Birch Grove congregation, Port
Allegheny, Pa. He summed up his
feelings with the statement, “ I was
impressed with how little I know.’”
(Page 4, Col. 1)
and twenty persons have dropped
out. New students according to di­visions
were 14 freshmen, four soph­omores,
four juniors, four post-gradu­ate
and four part-time students.
By noontime, eighty percent of the
students had completed registering.
One bottleneck in the process was the
checking s t a t i o n . More checkers
would have facilitated the register­ing.
Illegible handwriting and failure
to press hard enough on the carbon
copy forms caused some processing
difficulties.
Harold D. Lehman, registrar of
the college, commenting on the suc­cess
of the electronic “ pill,” said that
the administration has learned from
the mistakes and registration will oc­cur
with even greater ease in the fu ­ture.
This was the first time all students
registered in one day, and it was also
the first time the Nash Electronic
Data Processing Corporation assist­ed
EMC’s registration.
Campus Literaries
Will Meet Tonight
College literaries will concentrate
on the fine arts tonight at their
fourth meeting of the year.
The Prometheans will f e a t u r e
French culture. They have divided
the program into three parts, each
featuring one of the p e r i o d s in
French culture.
Folk music and literary selections
from Voltaire and Jean de la Fon­taine
will represent the Early Per­iod.
Selections from Romantic Period
will be a resume of Bizet’s Carmen,
selections by Sydney Schaefer from
Hugo’s Les Miserables and a talk
on French art.
A short story, poetry from St.
John Persey and music from Debus­sy
done as a piano solo will portray
the Modern Period.
The program will end with Julius
Massenet’s “ Elegy” sung by Ralph
Alderfer.
(Page 4, Col. 1)
All colleges were urged to use the
Manual for Developing A Ten-Year
College Budget, by Sidney Tickton.
With the aid of this manual, facul­ty
representatives in consultation
with the executive committee of the
board of trustees made projections
for financing the next ten years on
the basis of assumptions formulated.
Fund Solely for Groups
Since the Fund for the Advance­ment
of Education offers its services
only to groups, the Council for the
Advancement of Small Colleges ar­ranged
regional meetings to organize
these groups and to assist them in
their financial planning.
“ When the consultants saw the
carefulness with which EMC had
prepared its profile, and much o f the
credit for this goes to John Snyder,
our controller,” said President John
R. Mumaw, “they asked for the privi­lege
of using our assumptions and
calculations as study sheet for two-day
conferences in December, 1962,
held at Dallas and in Boston.”
Experience Builds Confidence
In evaluating, President Mumaw
continued, “ From this we discovered
some mistakes and learned better how
to use this manual so that now in our
third projection we feel more confi­dent
in the use of this instrument for
responsible financial planning.”
Though it is intended that the col­lege
will revise the budget each year,
it is current practice in higher edu­cation
to make financial plans on the
basis of ten-year projections.
Ziegler Discusses
WCC, Mennonites
M.R. Ziegler, former Brethren re­presentative
to the World Council of
Churches in Geneva, lectured to a
conjoint meeting of the Mennonite
Historical Fellowship and Peace Fel­lowship
on Jan. 24.
Mr. Ziegler is a resident of Broad­way,
Va. He has just returned from
a world tour and was in Geneva,
Switzerland, from 1948-58.
Ziegler Reviews Experiences
Looking back over his G e n e v a
years, Mr. Ziegler emphasized the
importance of the role of the historic
peace churches.
Mr. Ziegler devoted much of his
talk to describing his experience in
work with the World Council, mak­ing
a strong plea for ecumenicity.
The speaker challenged society
members to look forward forty years,
idealize the church they want at that
time, and then work hard for it.
Listener Makes Comment
Commenting on the lecture one of
the society members said, “ Mr. Zieg­ler’s
talk made the members feel the
prime importance of retaining our
peace policy and yet willingness to
work with other denominations.”
I.B. Horst introduced Mr. Ziegler
to the joint meeting. Professor Horst
had worked for some time with Mr.
Ziegler in Europe.
From Oregon to Kenya
Eighteen New Students Add Variety to E M C
Photo by Elmer Kennel
Participating pastors in Ministers’ Week adapt themselves to EMC
campus routine.
Pennsylvania ranked as the best-representated
state this semester as
eighteen new second semester stu­dents
registered.
Four new freshmen come from
Pennsylvania: Lois Steinhauer, Caro­lyn
Glick, Ray Yoder and Paul Hurst.
Though only a freshman, Mr. Yoder
has served two years in VS in Stan­field,
Ariz.
Donald Hedrick, a new sophomore,
served in the Congo as a Pax man
for two years.
Dorothy Wissler, also from Penn­sylvania,
has joined the sophomores.
Clara Landis, formerly from Lancas­ter,
Pa., is a missionary teacher from
Tanganyika who is doing post-gradu-ate
work here.
Three Virginians have also joined
the freshman class: Ann Wenger,
Karen Albrecht and Marian Will­iams.
Jack Cullers from Luray, Va.,
is a new sophomore.
Arthur Hostetler, new freshman
from Illinois, served his I-W term in
Chicago before coming to college.
Another Illinois s t u d e n t , Fannie
Plank, is a junior working on her
post-nursing degree.
Fern Nafziger, new member of the
freshman class, comes to EMC from
Oregon. Peter Nafziger from Ohio,
and Jesse Barrios, a New Yorker,
complete the list of new freshmen.
Evanson Mugume, a sophomore
s t u d e n t representing Kenya, has
transferred from Howard University.
Also new sophomores are Inez Wyse
from Michigan and Lawrence Sauder
from Maryland.
FORECAST
Feb. 1 College literaries
Feb. 6 Faculty-Student Council
Feb. 8 EMC vs. Messiah, away
Feb. 15 Weather Vane, No. 10

Weather Vane E M C Receives Recognition
For Its Development Budget
Volume VII Harrisonburg-, Virginia, February 1, 1963 Number 9
Lecturer Says Protestant Ethics
Complicate Control of Population
Last Friday evening, Dr. Richard
M. Fagley, author of The Population
Explosion and Christian Responsi­bility
lectured on the relationship of
responsible parenthood to the popu­lation
problem. Dr. Fagley explained
the reason for interest in this prob­lem,
different causes o f the problem
and methods that are being used to
combat it.
Our chief problem is that areas in
greatest need have the least amount
of resources available. The southern
hemisphere, an area in great need of
food, has only two per cent of the
world’s fisheries.
Storage and transportation of food
presents a l a r g e problem. Even
though some areas may have surplus
food, countries in need cannot receive
the e x c e s s because of inadequate
Senior Class Plans
Smorgasboard Social
Tomorrow evening at 6 p.m., the
senior class will meet at Belle Meade
restaurant for their class social.
The evening will feature a smor­gasboard
dinner. Food will be served
buffet style in whatever quantity the
guests desire.
Myron S. Augsburger, assistant
professor of theology, will speak to
the graduating class after the dinner.
Noah Martin will be master of cere­monies.
Sophomore Lucille Mumaw will
play piano numbers during the din­ner.
Speaking for the Senior Social
Committee, John Reed commented,
“ From all indications, this year’s
senior social should be more o f a
success than previous senior class
socials. Eighty-five people have sign­ed
up for the evening— a considerably
larger number than attended pre­viously.”
Other members of the Senior Social
Committee are Janice Hertzler and
David Bomberger.
transportation facilities.
Science Creates Problems
Modern s c i e n c e , in eliminating
world pestilences and diseases, cre­ates
the problem of overpopulation.
Four per cent of all mankind is liv­ing
today. The world’s population
placed in a continuous chain would
encircle the earth 125 times.
Migration to unsettled lands has
been suggested as a possible solution
to the problem. Countries which have
uninhabited areas have their own ex­panding
population, h o w e v e r , and
need the available land for their own
use.
As another solution, scientists pro­pose
mass transfer of people to other
planets. This possibility presents
some amusing complications.
Scientists Tap New Resources
Scientists also speculate on pos­sible
sources of food presently un­used.
Plankton and algae from the
ocean can help provide the needed
nourishment for humans.
Because science has helped elimin­ate
limiting factors of natural popu­lation
and because inhumane methods
such as deliberate warfare cannot
ethically be used, Dr. Fagley said
that scientists believe that only a
lowering of the birth rate will solve
the problem.
However, Protestantism today can­not
accept some proposed methods.
“ The Protestant consensus is strongly
against abortion as a means o f fam i­ly
limitation,” he said. Protestantism
would be equally opposed to steriliza­tion
as a population limiting factor.”
For generations Protestants upheld
the large family as an ideal. Today
this presents f o r m i d a b l e conse­quences.
“ The joys of parenthood
will find full expression in the Pro­testant
ethos which calls for adequate
family planning,” said Dr. Fagley.
He believes that the main contribution
of parenthood will come in a deepen­ed
understanding of marriage and
its purposes for the human family.
Representing ten North American
Mennonite conferences, 115 Menno-nite
ministers were on campus from
Jan. 21-25 in observance of Ministers’
Week and the week’s theme, “ The
Minister in Anxious Times.”
“ The purpose of the program,”
says Linden M. Wenger, “ was to give
the ministers an opportunity for fel­lowship
and study together— to hear
papers and discussions of interest to
the church in our time.”
The ten conferences were repre­sented
as follows: Allegheny, 6; Al-berta-
Saskatchewan, 1; Conservative
Mennonite, 5; Franconia, 7; Indiana-
Michigan, 1; Lancaster, 29; Ohio and
Eastern, 16; Ontario, 1; Virginia,
45; Washington-Franklin Co., 2; and
S A C Awards E M C
Permanent Standing
EMC has successfully passed the
three-year probationary membership
in the Southern Association of Col­leges,
reports Lester C. Shank, di­rector
of public relations.
All new association members pass
through the probationary period. The
SAC accredited EMC on Dec. 3, 1959.
SAC Executive Secretary Gordon
Sweet, wrote, “ We congratulate you
upon this change of status and upon
the progress being made at your ins­titution.”
Careful calculation and prepara­tion
of its projected financial plans
recently won EMC significant recog­nition
in higher education circles.
In the summer of 1961, the Coun­cil
of Mennonite Higher Education
with representatives of Goshen, Hes-ston,
and Eastern Mennonite Col­leges,
decided to look at the financial
needs of the future together.
They appealed to the Fund for the
Advancement o f Education, an or­ganization
established by the Ford
Foundation. This organization re­sponded
by providing a resource per­son
to conduct a seminar on financial
planning at Hesston College.
In addition to the above named
colleges, other colleges in the area
were also invited to participate in the
seminar.
Photo by Elmer Kennel
Mr. Nash processes registration data cards as Harold D. Lehman,
school registrar, and assistants look on
Registration for Second Semester
U p s College Enrollment by Seven
Second semester registration resulted in a net increase of
seven students. Human error and a bottleneck, however, decreased
the effectiveness of the new registration process.
New students enrolled number 27,
Special Week Attracts 115
For Discussions, Lectures
no conference listed, 3.
When asked what Ministers’ Week
meant to him, Newton Yoder of the
Mattawana Congregation, McVey-town,
Pa. replied, “ It’s quite chal­lenging
to me because I’m only a
young minister . . . I realize what
all’s expected of a pastor. It’s quite
encouraging though.”
“ I appreciated these instructors—
their deep sincerity to present to us
the high calling that we as ministers
have to present the Gospel to people,”
remarked Alvin Miller, minister of
the Birch Grove congregation, Port
Allegheny, Pa. He summed up his
feelings with the statement, “ I was
impressed with how little I know.’”
(Page 4, Col. 1)
and twenty persons have dropped
out. New students according to di­visions
were 14 freshmen, four soph­omores,
four juniors, four post-gradu­ate
and four part-time students.
By noontime, eighty percent of the
students had completed registering.
One bottleneck in the process was the
checking s t a t i o n . More checkers
would have facilitated the register­ing.
Illegible handwriting and failure
to press hard enough on the carbon
copy forms caused some processing
difficulties.
Harold D. Lehman, registrar of
the college, commenting on the suc­cess
of the electronic “ pill,” said that
the administration has learned from
the mistakes and registration will oc­cur
with even greater ease in the fu ­ture.
This was the first time all students
registered in one day, and it was also
the first time the Nash Electronic
Data Processing Corporation assist­ed
EMC’s registration.
Campus Literaries
Will Meet Tonight
College literaries will concentrate
on the fine arts tonight at their
fourth meeting of the year.
The Prometheans will f e a t u r e
French culture. They have divided
the program into three parts, each
featuring one of the p e r i o d s in
French culture.
Folk music and literary selections
from Voltaire and Jean de la Fon­taine
will represent the Early Per­iod.
Selections from Romantic Period
will be a resume of Bizet’s Carmen,
selections by Sydney Schaefer from
Hugo’s Les Miserables and a talk
on French art.
A short story, poetry from St.
John Persey and music from Debus­sy
done as a piano solo will portray
the Modern Period.
The program will end with Julius
Massenet’s “ Elegy” sung by Ralph
Alderfer.
(Page 4, Col. 1)
All colleges were urged to use the
Manual for Developing A Ten-Year
College Budget, by Sidney Tickton.
With the aid of this manual, facul­ty
representatives in consultation
with the executive committee of the
board of trustees made projections
for financing the next ten years on
the basis of assumptions formulated.
Fund Solely for Groups
Since the Fund for the Advance­ment
of Education offers its services
only to groups, the Council for the
Advancement of Small Colleges ar­ranged
regional meetings to organize
these groups and to assist them in
their financial planning.
“ When the consultants saw the
carefulness with which EMC had
prepared its profile, and much o f the
credit for this goes to John Snyder,
our controller,” said President John
R. Mumaw, “they asked for the privi­lege
of using our assumptions and
calculations as study sheet for two-day
conferences in December, 1962,
held at Dallas and in Boston.”
Experience Builds Confidence
In evaluating, President Mumaw
continued, “ From this we discovered
some mistakes and learned better how
to use this manual so that now in our
third projection we feel more confi­dent
in the use of this instrument for
responsible financial planning.”
Though it is intended that the col­lege
will revise the budget each year,
it is current practice in higher edu­cation
to make financial plans on the
basis of ten-year projections.
Ziegler Discusses
WCC, Mennonites
M.R. Ziegler, former Brethren re­presentative
to the World Council of
Churches in Geneva, lectured to a
conjoint meeting of the Mennonite
Historical Fellowship and Peace Fel­lowship
on Jan. 24.
Mr. Ziegler is a resident of Broad­way,
Va. He has just returned from
a world tour and was in Geneva,
Switzerland, from 1948-58.
Ziegler Reviews Experiences
Looking back over his G e n e v a
years, Mr. Ziegler emphasized the
importance of the role of the historic
peace churches.
Mr. Ziegler devoted much of his
talk to describing his experience in
work with the World Council, mak­ing
a strong plea for ecumenicity.
The speaker challenged society
members to look forward forty years,
idealize the church they want at that
time, and then work hard for it.
Listener Makes Comment
Commenting on the lecture one of
the society members said, “ Mr. Zieg­ler’s
talk made the members feel the
prime importance of retaining our
peace policy and yet willingness to
work with other denominations.”
I.B. Horst introduced Mr. Ziegler
to the joint meeting. Professor Horst
had worked for some time with Mr.
Ziegler in Europe.
From Oregon to Kenya
Eighteen New Students Add Variety to E M C
Photo by Elmer Kennel
Participating pastors in Ministers’ Week adapt themselves to EMC
campus routine.
Pennsylvania ranked as the best-representated
state this semester as
eighteen new second semester stu­dents
registered.
Four new freshmen come from
Pennsylvania: Lois Steinhauer, Caro­lyn
Glick, Ray Yoder and Paul Hurst.
Though only a freshman, Mr. Yoder
has served two years in VS in Stan­field,
Ariz.
Donald Hedrick, a new sophomore,
served in the Congo as a Pax man
for two years.
Dorothy Wissler, also from Penn­sylvania,
has joined the sophomores.
Clara Landis, formerly from Lancas­ter,
Pa., is a missionary teacher from
Tanganyika who is doing post-gradu-ate
work here.
Three Virginians have also joined
the freshman class: Ann Wenger,
Karen Albrecht and Marian Will­iams.
Jack Cullers from Luray, Va.,
is a new sophomore.
Arthur Hostetler, new freshman
from Illinois, served his I-W term in
Chicago before coming to college.
Another Illinois s t u d e n t , Fannie
Plank, is a junior working on her
post-nursing degree.
Fern Nafziger, new member of the
freshman class, comes to EMC from
Oregon. Peter Nafziger from Ohio,
and Jesse Barrios, a New Yorker,
complete the list of new freshmen.
Evanson Mugume, a sophomore
s t u d e n t representing Kenya, has
transferred from Howard University.
Also new sophomores are Inez Wyse
from Michigan and Lawrence Sauder
from Maryland.
FORECAST
Feb. 1 College literaries
Feb. 6 Faculty-Student Council
Feb. 8 EMC vs. Messiah, away
Feb. 15 Weather Vane, No. 10